Cultural studies

Summary of the Cultural Studies course taught in the first year and first semester of the BA International Studies at Leiden University. It contains an extensive summary of lectures 1 to 12, and it includes some of the required readings.

Culture, Globalisation & New Media 2

Culture, Globalisation & New Media 1

Culture, Power, Knowledge (Foucault),

Identity, Feminism and Representation

Culture and Identity, Subject and Subjectivity, Essentialism, Hybridity, Diaspora, Imagined Community, Sex-Gender, Queer

Mass Media and resisting mainstream culture: subculture and the beginnings of feminism

Culture & Mass Media: The impact of Television on Culture (and the creative way we tend to consume and interpret television)

Approaching culture like a language, but differently: post-structuralism (Foucault on discourse)

Approaching culture like a language: the concept and method of structuralism (Saussure on the sign and Barthes on myth)